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: Manage Your Writing

This week: Start with a bang

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Mark McCormack, in his book What They Still Don't Teach You in Harvard Business School, listed what he called the eight "toughest" messages to deliver:

(1) This is how you do it. (2) I want to sell you. (3) I goofed. (4) I have some bad news for you. (5) You did a great job. (6) Dear Boss, you're wrong. (7) This is my demand. (8) This is how you rate.

McCormack continued, "I would read a memo that began with any one of these sentences."

This week, as you revise, pay special attention to the first sentences of your messages. Will they make your reader keep reading?

Full post as published by Manage Your Writing on August 18, 2008 (boomark / email).

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